all this real number doesn't run into the hundreds or thousands because the same cadre of bad detectives that probably were 2 dozen of them were in place for over 35 years. were marked on. it. with no evidence or witness statements against him on the 7th of march $997.00 lamar monson is sentenced to 50 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of christina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he signed. martin believe that this is going to be. off years they're not going to want to be in prison on my. that's something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being processed for

you to go into a sale on the whole process of it is comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from. you one thing about them are. i think that he thought his daughters they were looking occurred to me. but everything he told me to do for her. in the matters and in his. everything he do for her she never had a word for anything because the father was not around and she was upset and angry her mother too was because them are was in here to help her train. his daughter said they could but he had the best interests in the world for his. he just wasn't

here to do it so i did it and like us is good in the world for nothing but missing of. 20 years later a single event changes the course of lamar monson's life just around the time that bill proctor the journalist who followed his case is getting ready to retire he receives a call from an unexpected witness who claims to know the real identity of christina brown's murder. 2 months before i retired after 33 years in terms of and she called me on the phone it was one of the more shocking calls i'd ever taken. as an investigator and you get many but this woman said to me on the phone. and me even if you don't remember that murder that you covered back then on

boston you got it wrong. you got it wrong and i said ok i'm listening. and she explained that she was with the person who did the murder of the person in prison was not the killer that he wasn't there but she was with the man who did the killing and came back from the event dripping in blood and confessed to her that he had killed the. life. 20 years 20 plus year that it carried. and the navy and i say i'm outta here me almost telecom i'm not on hall of math and that.

at the time of the events shalane a bentley resides in the building where the crime takes place she shares her life with a certain mr robert louis both of them were regular crack users on the day of the crime show in a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart meant covered in blood the end. and then a little bit of my door open and the local m.p. throwing them out the way and blood with it on. the. boots on. the my blood and it's like it was blood on his nails he just killed. very important to me that. you know wrong as it is. whatever else

he was charged with. i feel like 18 year he. too much. i'm the one that told him that the girl was not fair she was beat. they had and he. no he didn't he be. sure lena bentleys witness statement changes everything a team of lawyers and students from the university of michigan decide to reopen lamar monson's case they are part of a national network of dozens of american universities who fight against judicial errors over the course of a year they retraced the police investigation step by step trying to prove lamar monson's innocence the big problem right away with this confession was that it didn't match the crime scene so at the time they interrogated lamar and then extracted this false confession and got him to sign this false confession the

police believe that christina brown had been stabbed to death they believe that because near her body in the bathroom sink there was a bloody knife and she had been stabbed so they extracted a confession or i wrote out a confession for lamar in which he says he stabs her to death the problem was is that she wasn't stepped but the police did know that time so a few days later when the autopsy report comes out it reveals that she had superficial stab wounds but actually she'd been bludgeoned to death with a heavy object. it does not take the lawyers long to find the heavy object that allegedly killed the victim on the photos in the case file they notice that the toilet tank lid is not in the right place the likely murder instrument was the ceramic toilet tank with a heavy ceramic toy thankfully that had blood all over it that was found in the bedroom not too far from christina brown's print.

after this the lawyers are convinced lamar monson did not kill christina brown as such he could not have written the confession himself the team from the university of michigan then asked the judge in charge of the case for access to the objects that were present at the scene of the crime 20 years earlier. and in september 2 10162 students and i went to the to the prosecutor's office where they was brought there and it was unwrapped and it was still covered in blood and amazingly though it was it covered in blood but there were bloody fingerprints all over it nobody had ever bothered to test and so this student you know saying hey look there's a bloody fingerprint right there and so i whipped out my i phone and i took photos of some of the bloody fingerprints on my i phone. and then brought them back and blew them up and we could see that they weren't we had comparison samples

a lot and they looked a lot like robert louis is fingerprints. this can state police have new technology and they found none. and all of them belonged to robert louis and none of them belonged to the months and i was ecstatic because i know the power of forensic testimony improves vs what someone might say because one is irrefutable the other can always be cut down by a nasty prosecutor. he couldn't do anything with this you should have seen the prosecutors struggle to answer the forensics that came from no less than the miss against the police crime lab. it was powerful stuff and it was a day for celebration. in the northern. plains for us thank you and we need

to find. a new. thanks to this new evidence more monson is granted a new trial in january 2017 after a one day hearing the court decides to exonerate lamar monson. surreal for me because these things i've been praying and asked for and to see things develop and before my last witness come for 5 to 12 years evidence. just by i'm feel event take a hit in my spirit you know when i'm feeling good. i don't know the truth but now everybody knows the truth and so that was. a lesson you know people have stood by me. feel good for them because now people know that they still. me and they were right to do so. lamar munson is out on bond and heads

right over to his family and supporters at the wayne county jail. and i have prayed and i pray. and i ask. please let me live in them or come home. and when february 1st. 2017 and i was there and he was released. a holiday in credit. and i credit my son is free at last. i just knew was a call to ask for is something being we've been waiting or something we've been up to supreme for the longest on the file he came along i just said i can only go to glory to go on the field your mom always said she was in waiting to get that to hold your mom right now talk about that emotion and all this anger words to express

is one of been a mark on all my life this is the law of my life and i'm just glad she finally got some i have to be happy about. oh it's a wonderful feeling. i've had now. 22 of these cases altogether 17 since we started the clinic and i had 5 before and it's never gets old. it's so wonderful when the person actually comes out of the door and they're met by their family and friends and. the students who work on the case the attorneys who work on the case. we're.

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monson's name is cleared for good. robert lewis the man whose fingerprints were found at the scene as to this day still not been indicted. you have his ex-girlfriend saying he did it and then all the people in the world whose fingerprints could be on that toilet in blood it's him that's pretty good evidence i mean that's that's a case where i think the the dumbest prosecutor in the world could win a conviction pretty easily. but. they made it clear they're not going to charge him because charging him would be admitting that they got it wrong with them armand's. kristina brown has been dead now for 22 years but she still deserves justice and

her family still deserves justice and they won't get it because the prosecution the stuff. is still free want to know well and they know that he's guilty so what does that tell you about the system. system don't care about me. i'm a taxpayer i've lived in this city in this world over 50 years. they don't care. all they want to do is get away and people. that try to keep families together at separate or it doesn't matter how. the country is untrue. we live with certain notions of justice.

of what the law says and what we all believe in our hearts. that the person really responsible for something as innocent as the murder of a 12 year old girl should answer for that crime. yet over and over and over again i have been party to evaluating cases where there are innocence claims and the person responsible is known and named and the very police department the made a mistake does nothing to go back and capture and charge the person who was really responsible because it's difficult because it takes extra work because it takes new witnesses because it takes a harder examination of what really happened and that examination would show that the initial group of police investigators that only failed but walked away from certain facts they didn't finish.

can you put a price on 20 years spent behind bars for a crime he did not commit. this man received a figure and the subsequent compensation of $20000000.00. one rivera has just received 20000000 dollars 20000000 dollars for 20 years of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit one rivera was also forced to sign a confession. in 1997 he confessed to the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl.

turns out at the same. decided to you know settle i would as i was asked by the news media you know is the 20000000 that is enough and i'll tell you as i told them you know what you keep tweeting me much when years back i miss my cities i miss my nieces and nephews my mother was at the time my father was lost my grandparents you know there's a lot of things that i miss. family. that i can never get back no matter how much money i get you know they can offer me a $100000000.00 when they come for yes it has given me comfort but there's nothing in my years it doesn't give me that years that i've lost the memories that are often lost i mean to this day if you ask my parents for any of my childhood photos she would say she has them because the court has them one of 3 trials every time you go to trial when nordstrom is the one who photos you want to show you humans. i

don't have no records of my upbringing because they didn't get. my life started january 6th 2012 that's when my life that's when i have a record of who i am. surrounded by family members and cameras want ribeiro walked out of state bill correctional center a free man all i want to do is enjoy my time with my family but it's been 20 years of separation and this is a new beginning for me so this may be one of those. not a few last months. turned the conviction that you would. know. $20000000.00 is not enough it never will be enough nor any amount because again is the memories their meaning. not the money.

one rivera is barely 19 years old when his life turns into a nightmare on the 17th of august 1902 the chicago police force accuses him of the rape and murder of holly staker an 11 year old babysitter who was stabbed $27.00 times the case makes headlines across the country. in the space of a few hours the chicago police turns one into a publicly hated monster. i had a different sentence that's because then yes i was an innocent person going to prison is a natural a sense as for something that is due so that was this added bonus to my him going into prison 1st of all i'm going to an environment that is a nexus of unknown and very very scary. second i'm going into for murder. her rape be there for 11 years so as

if they got 3 strikes against him in prison they don't like me. but they do i guess them twice when i was in prison. 2 it's embraced on me of course i had to fight him off thank god that i defied him off. in prison records this is what i had so we do it when i was interesting. rivera was not far from being sent to the electric chair these years of violence in prison these years spent on the margins of society have forever destroyed his trust in others and in the system. for me to hear at that time and they were willing to kill in 1000 year old kid. in this and what the hell was going on shows you the character of mankind you know i'm. to this day i still have difficulties and trust him because he was willing to kill me then a mission i'm not willing to kill me now when i got death threats. are going to

live my life by smiling and watching my back because people still want to hurt me just as in that i know that because they doing to me constantly while i'm walking in the streets and i get in the branches the general approach is that you know what i have a chance to kill you i would because you don't deserve to be alive i have free when i think you killed that child so this is what i'm going to live with but still yet i got to smile. in 2015 the results of d.n.a. analyses allowed want to be exonerated for good polly staker is a real killer still roams free and no police officer seems to be searching for him out of the 20 $1000000.00 that one rivera received $2000000.00 were paid in by reed following a legal agreement in spite of this compensation not a single police officer has been personally sanctioned. all the officers.

that worked in my case as well it's attorneys if all retired with a pension pension there was no repercussions no richard boucher no criminal charges nothing i see extended into job they need to hire and major tenants to his is very much want to retire and they gave him a plaque for good job. there's a culture of. unaccountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving their crime and everything to do with. pointing the finger at perhaps the easiest person to point the finger at and there will be no consequence and so it happens over and over and over in their states. oh yeah it goes

a victim. having clothes they did they still own big so let me i might get credit i have clarity but what about her family do they even care no they're not even searching for the person they get these because they thought and they still feel that i'm guilty. in this theory our criminal justice system is designed to correctly identify perpetrators and bring them to justice where fails and where fails because of misconduct. the reaction of the criminal justice system is really the opposite of what it should be the criminal justice system tries to cover up the failure. and retain its legitimacy instead of admitting its mistakes and finding the real perpetrators the law gives police officers what is called qualified immunity for their actions which means it's very difficult to sue their after the fact for

their roles in obtaining false confessions and prosecutors have what's called absolute immunity. so unless they become part of the police investigative process they are not going to be held responsible for their role in wrongful convictions. no one should be above the law. and police officers themselves should not be above the law. reed has not responded to any of our interview requests however the firm has informed us that their training procedures now take the risk of false confessions into account. for its part the supreme court of the united states still allows police officers to lie during the interrogation stage. i mean we're

asking a couple of these guys depositions why they thought telling a lie was going to get the truth and they didn't have an answer for me they just said well that's what we do that's the way of interrogations go we're allowed to why did them and i again ask you why do you think lying to someone is going to get a truthful answer in response in they just couldn't answer it and i for the life of me i don't understand why someone would think that lying to someone is going to get a truth response back so it's a horrible practice that that goes on all the time and in the u.s. it's just it doesn't really serve it doesn't serve justice at all. what state does the. judicial system find itself in today with corrupt cops and untouchable magistrates the american justice system is continuously producing more inequalities and more impunity in a country that is more divided than ever. because

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